When giving talks I like to renew myself and talk about something different each time. For my talk in Copenhagen at the Future Heirloom event last weekend I […]
Climbers / Perennial vegetables
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Grape leaves
I love it when edible plants find their own place in my garden! I planted a hardy grape species Vitis coignetiae from the Far East including Japan, Korea […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetables / Pollinators
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Flowering Aster scaber
September is the month when several Asteraceae are in flower including one of my favourite perennial vegetables and edimentals Aster scaber (yes, I know it’s officially Doellingeria scabra) […]
Article / Perennial vegetables / Winter shoots / Winter vegetables
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Giant Ulleung Celery
In my world, plants that are both perennial, edible, ornamental and popular with pollinating insects are the most valuable (I term this class of plants edi-ento-mentals) and the […]
Shrub / Trees
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First leafing again
When I was away in January, the mildest ever recorded in this part of the world, this bird cherry that I received as Padus asiatica leafed out for […]
Root crops
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Balloon flower
Platycodon grandiflorus (balloon flower), an important vegetable in the Far East, is just starting to flower in the garden. In Korea, it is called doraji. Its root, either dried […]
Seed
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Seed from Korea
Many thanks to my friend Misoni Sandvik for sending me some more seed on her recent visit to Korea…. Misoni figures in both Aster scaber and Bunias orientalis […]
Biannuals / Brassica / Edimentals / oil seed / Seed
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The Edible Japanese Bluebell!
When I visited Japan in early spring 2016, I noticed a violet/purple flower growing as an ornamental in some gardens and also escaped as a weed. I finally […]
Perennial vegetables
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Octobasters
There are some great autumn flowering edimentals (or edible ornamentals) in the Asteraceae, and this is my favourite of the lot, Korean Aster or Chwinamul (Aster scaber)….and it’s […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables
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Korean Aster on Edimentals
Two years ago, I posted this picture of Aster scaber, commonly wild foraged in Korea and nowadays cultivated for markets in Korea and exported dried to Koreans in […]
Forest Gardening
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Yuki-no-shita
Saxifraga stolonifera is a lover of dark, wet, rocky places in Japan, Korea and China. I saw it several places in Japan during my March / April visit […]
Course / wraps
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Day 4 of the Permaveggies course and Ligularia wraps!
This was an unscheduled course day for me, my helper Lorna and Berit the camper, as it was a national holiday in Norway and Christian Odberger gave us […]
Perennials
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The Wild Greens of Korea
There are still many undiscovered (in the west) perennial edibles in the Far East. I’m therefore now concentrating mainly on that area in this quest. This spring I […]
Edimentals / Perennials
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My first Korean Aster flower
7 years ago on 27th July 2008 and the first flower on Aster scaber / Korean Aster opened in the garden :) Post Views: […]